This paper reports on a project, conducted jointly between SaskEnergy/Transgas and the University of Regina, which aims at developing an integrated decision support system for the optimization of natural gas pipeline operations. In this integrated approach, both expert systems and operations research techniques are used to model the operations of the gas pipelines. The decision support system can perform the tasks of: determining the state of the line pack of the pipelines and recommending the control commands to be issued; determining the associated horsepower requirement; and determining the specific compressor unit to be turned on or off. The first two tasks are performed by an expert system, and the third by a fuzzy programming model. The expert system has been developed on G2 and validated using a simulation program.
An integrated expert system/operations research approach for the optimization of natural gas pipeline operations
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence ; 13 , 4 ; 465-475
2000
11 Seiten, 17 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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